Image shows an Asian elephant in Nepal an undated photo. A University of Vienna study published on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022, showed that the elephant's long trunk is not only used for sniffing, but also for vocalization. Note: Licensed content. (Veronika Beeck/Newsflash)
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26 August 2022
Humans and elephants are the only mammals to combine their mouths and their noses to create sounds, a new study has revealed. Cognitive biologists Veronika Beeck and Angela Stoger-Horwath and a team from Austria's University of Vienna studied the sounds of Asian elephants using an acoustic...